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Address by President Nelson Mandela to parliament 6 February 1998
… that, unlike some of us, those who bore the brunt of apartheid oppression say that things are a lot better. But … require our public service department and…
Archive1998 - President Mandela, State of the Nation Address, 6 February 1998
… that, unlike some of us, those who bore the brunt of apartheid oppression say that things are a lot better. But … require our public service department and…
Address to the 21st Session of the Assembly of Heads of State and Government of the OAU by O.R. Tambo, Addis Ababa, 19 July 1985
… leaders and political activists held in the prisons of apartheid - men, women and these days, even children, who … fathers of our continental organisation…
Document 91. ‘April 6: People’s Protest Day’. Flyer issued by the ANC (Transvaal) and the Transvaal Indian Congress
… Nationalist Government of Dr. Malan with its policy of Apartheid. Under high prices and low wages, we are starving, … offence, July 21, 1952 Your Worship…
Document 45 - Letter from the International Secretariat of the International Left Opposition to Cape Town comrades, 23 October 1932
… third lnternational only. As concerns these questions the American League has published sufficient material which must …
EventThe Berlin Airlift comes to an end
… of supplies during the 406 days of the airlift. Some 441 American aircraft were used in total and they carried over …
Umrabulo - Issue No.11, 2nd Quarter 2001
… the Freedom Charter for decades guided struggles against apartheid colonialism and forms the basis of our programme to … the country's wealth and the land or…
PlaceGroote Kerk, Pretoria
… story of our country especially with regards to the Apartheid era. As “Moederkerk” of the Dutch Reformed … PEN Ministries, who was very much involved in…
January 8th Statements - Statement of the National Executive Committee of the African National Congress On The Occasion Of the 105th Anniversary of the African National Congress Presented By President Jacob Zuma
… 8 January 2017, Orlando, Soweto His Excellency President Brahim Ghali, President of the … is the result of the dedication, sacrifice and hard work of…
EventMohandas K. Gandhi is arrested as he leads a march of Indian miners in South Africa
… On his journey to South Africa in 1893, Mohandas Gandhi had … of the discrimination faced by people of colour. His response to this was the establishment of…
ArchiveFirst Mafika Gwala Lecture: The Arts of Resistance - Mafika Gwala and South African Poetry by Ari Sitas
… in Natal2 which attempted to situate Mafika Pascal Gwala’s work in the late 1980s would be appropriate in marking his legacy. The more I re-read what I had…
EventBhekisani Manyoni, artist, is born in Greytown
… Greytown, Natal (now KwaZulu Natal). He later moved with his family to the Dundee area, near Rorke's Drift, where he … Drift Art School. After attending…
EventSir Patrick Manson, Scottish doctor and founder of tropical medicine is born
… causes elephantiasis. These observations, made during his time as medical officer for the Chinese Imperial Maritime … of plasmodium, a parasite which causes…
EventSir Percy Fitzpatrick, author of ‘Jock of the Bushveld’, is born
… as a Supreme Court judge in the Cape Colony and following his death Percy Fitzpatrick travelled to the Eastern … Transvaal, where he worked as a journalist…
Professor Zakes Mda review of Robert Mcbride A coloured Life
… The work is clearly a result of meticulous research and depends on extensive primary sources. It is a scholarly work, yet it prides itself in lucidity and…
Adriaan Oosthuizen
… whose hobby became an occupation for the past 16 years. I work as a commercial photographer but decided to attempt to see more outside the parameters of my…
EventFriedrich Engels, German philosopher, dies in London
… industrialist, he was sent to England to help manage his father's cotton factory. Upon his arrival in Manchester Engels was stunned by the high … Marx in…
EventChristoffel Coetzee de Villiers (37), compiler of South African genealogical registers, dies
… the 'father of South African geneaology' and began writing his significant three volume genealogical register called … in 1882. De Villiers died on 4…
EventAuthor of the book, Born Free, Joy Adamson, is killed
… with Jeevan Vasagar from the Guardian. Apparently this was his first since he was jailed for Adamson's murder. Ekai also confessed before his trial that he…
Seedtimes Retrospective Omar Badsha
… and photographic essays from the mid-1960s to 2000s. His drawings are being shown for the first time alongside his documentary photographic essays for which…
EventANC President, Oliver Tambo, denies that the ANC is in secret negotiations with the South African government
… in secret negotiations with the South African government. His denial came two months after a Member of Parliament … Federal Party, Dr. Frederik van Zyl…
EventSouth African poet, writer and political activist, Mafika Pascal Gwala is born in Durban.
… KwaZulu-Natal. He is the second child of five children of his parents. He matriculated in Inkamana High School in KwaZulu-Natal. Gwala spent his adult life…
Bernard Shaw and May Morris
… but only one of them-May -took a keen interest in his work, attended all the meetings and social gatherings; the … central figure of the household; but the…
PlaceRustenburg
… of Rustenburg spans from the 15th Century to the post-Apartheid city, and the Town has become the fastest growing … of hymns. But he also began to engage in…
EventNelson Mandela is sentenced to five years for “incitement and leaving South Africa illegally”
… the intention to prepare for an armed struggle against the apartheid government. In 1962 He was smuggled out of South … African freedom conference in Addis…
EventSipho Malaza allegedly dies in detention
… day thirty years ago while in Security Police custody. His death was the twenty-first in detention since March 1976. An entry in Deaths in Detention gives…
EventJohnny Clegg, South African musician is born
… for Zimbabwe where he lived until the age of seven. He and his mother immigrated to South Africa following her marriage to a South African Journalist. Owing…
EventANC stalwart and Rivonia Trialist, Govan Mbeki, is released from Robben Island Prison
… from Robben Island after twenty-three years in prison. His release followed a call for all political prisoners to be freed, as apartheid was dying. Upon his…
Propaganda and the Pursuit of Hegemonic Goals – The Myanmar and Zimbabwe Experience by Thabo Mbeki, 29 February 2016
… Government had executed Ken Saro-Wiwa and eight of his Ogoni colleagues. He then immediately joined others … that he should allow the tribunal to complete…
Address by Executive Deputy President Thabo Mbeki, to Corporate Council on Africa’s “Attracting Capital to Africa” Summit, 19-22 April 1997; Chantilly Virgiana, USA
… would have found it within themselves to end the system of apartheid peacefully, to queue one after the other, black and … which teaches us, as Africans,…